Somehow Virginia Tech managed to eke out a 'W' against homecoming MAC opponent Western Michigan. Yeah, don't ask me how that happened. It doesn't happen very often. And quite frankly I was kind of surprised... Read more

Notes and nibbles from a wild and crazy weekend of Mid-American Conference football in this MAC Attack Week 5 edition:
Shocker in the Steel City
The stunner of the week (and perhaps the entire MAC season) was in Pittsburgh, where Akron — 20-point... Read more

Virginia Tech's decorated defensive coordinator Bud Foster is unquestionably the best in the business at dialing up ferocious scoring prevention schemes and making opposing signal callers absolutely miserable... Read more

This article came a lot sooner than expected.
Usually when a team emerges victorious from an underdog fight that vaults it to No. 9 in the country, that team doesn’t then lose to an unranked opponent immediately afterwards... Read more

Our Experts

Depending on what website you read, there are a lot of options for “the most secure job” one can have in America: Biomedical engineer, accountant, software engineer…
None of them are correct... Read more

The NCAA is considering a rule change that would slow down teams that like to run the no-huddle offense. The new rule would give defenses time to make substitutions to counter an offense that already has its plan in place... Read more

We get it. Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson doesn't pay attention to those pesky rankings given to recruiting classes, and he hates the ratings system the recruiting sites use to evaluate talent... Read more

Debates

The non-conference games in the Big 12 are usually nothing to write home about. During the BCS, the focus was more on wins against easy opponents and less on the strength of the non-conference schedule... Read more

Yea. He said it.
It's not like others weren't thinking it. I mean, sure the conference hadn't had a national champion in a decade, but it was still the bully on the block so to speak. It had three teams in the top ten just one year earlier... Read more

"Freshman..." Cough, cough.
It's an age-old inside joke referring to the miscues that can accompany student-athletes from the comforts of high school action to the trying demands of a four-year collegiate program... Read more